Group Psychotherapy Assessment and Practice: A Measurement-Based Care Approach

Group Psychotherapy Assessment and Practice is the definitive guide to  assessment in group therapy, offering the reader a means to understand  and implement group therapy screening, process, and outcome tools.

Geared  to group psychotherapists as well as academics, this state-of-the-art  text provides the reader with a framework to support and augment  clinical judgment as part of routine clinical practice. It demonstrates  how utilizing measurement-based care collaboratively with clients can  help maximize therapeutic processes and mechanisms of change. This book  shows how measures can improve the detection of client worsening and  prevent premature dropout – two factors that contribute greatly to our  duty to client care. Leading experts in the field provide examples of  new measures that can enhance multicultural training and group leader  cultural sensitivity, illustrating how awareness of diversity can  enhance clinical practice and provide more contextually responsive  treatment. Examples of cross-cultural adaptations of measurement are  also included that place group therapy assessment within an  international framework.

This modern guide provides practical  tools such as handouts, measures to aid in member selection, and methods  of tracking progress and outcome to strengthen the group leader’s  effectiveness.